7 Metabolic Distruptors

DIET.  A word that is often associated with cutting certain foods out of your diet, depriving yourself of needed nutrients and calories, and yo yo weight changes.  I like to think of the word DIET to represent "Did I Eat Today"??

We need to "stoke the fire" with nutrient dense, unprocessed foods to keep our metabolism burning hot.  When your metabolism is working well you can go away on that vacation and indulge  a little more then normal, or have the occasional drink or dessert without having to worry about putting on a few pounds.  

Here are some foods that are metabolic disruptors and should be consumed lightly:

• Refined Sugar: 
  
  • heavily processed and makes it very hard for your body to maintain a stable blood sugar as it enters the blood stream too quickly  leading to excess sugar in your fat cells
  • 2 teaspoons of sugar can inhibit weight loss for three to four days
  • makes you hungrier
• Refined Wheat Flour (white flour)
  • highly modified to make it more pest and weather resistant which also make it more digestion-resistant. 
  • Symptoms: inflammation, gas, bloating, water retention, fatigue, joint pain etc. 
  • Exception is Sprouted Wheat Bread - when wheat is sprouted into a plant and then ground it makes it more digestible.   You can buy sprouted bread, bagels and wraps from most local grocery stores including Costco
• Coffee
  • Extreme adrenal gland stressor
  • Adrenal glands keep you stress hormone steady, regulate your fight or flight hormones, regulate aldosterone (which controls fat metabolism), helps with fat metabolism and sugar storage, and regulates muscle development.   When you drink a lot of coffee you disrupt all these crucial metabolic functions
  • I love my coffee but I am limiting it to 1 cup a day and I always eat before or while drinking my coffee. Coffee on an empty stomach is a metabolism killer.  
• Soy
  • Soy is estrogenic in nature and plant estrogens love to increase belly fat.
  • It is fed to livestock to cheaply increase protein content and cause rapid weight gain.  
• Alcohol
  • it's a toxin that your liver must process.  Tips for those days you are going to drink:  Eat every 3 hours; eat protein at every meal; eat protein snack 30 minutes before consuming alcohol; drink 8 oz of water for every glass of alcohol
• Dairy
  • Mainstream, hormone filled, refined dairy, like milk and cheese,  have too high of sugar-fat-protein ratio leading to high rate of sugar delivery from the lactose = metabolism disruptors.
• Corn
  • corn has been drastically modified over the years to make it sweeter
  • Essentially corn is a big chunk of sugar that increases the production of white fat